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costume ia liot weather, and Mr. Belle w wlien " Cast 

 up by the Sea/' was in flesh-coloured tights and very 

 little even of these. The effect was extraordinary, 

 when he rolled on to the stage out of the sad sea waves, 

 and Mrs. Brown Potter went into hysterics over his 

 scantily clothed body. There was also a desperate 

 scene when Hero came into Leander's chamber dripping 

 with water from the Hellespont, and the curtain was 

 discreetly lowered before matters came to a climax. 

 Mr. T. Y. Twinning was their manager, and a real 

 good fellow he is. He is now lessee of the Corinthian 

 Theatre, Calcutta, and I recently met him in London, 

 when we had a chat about old times in the Colonies. 



Miss Genevieve Ward and Mr. W. H. Vernon, 

 were decidedly successful, and in " Forget-me-Not/^ 

 and '^Mammon," and ^^ Jane Shore,^' they had every 

 opportunity of showing their great abilities. Mr. 

 Wybert Reeve as Count Fosco in the ^^ Woman in 

 White," was a real treat, and he has successfully 

 managed the Adelaide Theatre for some years ? 



Madame Melba will have a far different reception 

 when she returns to Australia to that she received 

 at Bathurst some years ago when such a scanty 

 audience assembled to hear her that the concert 

 was abandoned. And yet the Bathurstians rather 

 pride themselves upon their knowledge of good sing- 

 ing and music. 



I ought not to omit Mr. Goodman, the well-known 



